Fast & Furious

On Saturday the Bantam’s travelled to Cold Lake losing a close one 2 to 1. No scoring in the first period. Josef ‘Red’ Theriault with the only goal in the second assisted by the Spiderman and Landon the ‘Magnificent’ Malachowski.

The Ice finding the mesh with two in the third period, the Avalanche unable to reply. The Fontaine brothers who took the Referee clinic on Saturday all day  missing in this one. But did a really good job officiating at home for the Peewee and Atom games Saturday night .

The Atom Avalanche easily defeating the Mallaig Monarchs 12 to 2  Saturday night. Not a lot of competition here but this is one of the preseason tiering games.

Last week, the Atoms were on the losing end of the same type of game. Defenseman  Braylee ‘Wee Willy’ Lesyk getting the green light weaving through the team like pylons scoring four unassisted goals. He also assisted on four other goals to boot. I always like seeing the D Men rush with the puck as long as they can get back in time and know when to pass or at least flip it into the corner instead of losing it to the opposition and getting caught with the whole team standing flat footed.

‘Without a Trace’ Morgan and Brendan ‘Buzz Saw’ Kadutski both scoring a hat trick and adding one assist each. Kestyn Quinney in the right spot on the door step tipping one in and big ‘Boe Dog’ St. George airmailing a long bomb  home from the point. Kale ‘the Hawk’ Ockerman behind the mask wasn’t very busy, only 13 shots in the whole game, but came up big a couple of times when the defense got caught on a line change. This type of game is harder for a goalie to stay focused.

The Peewee Avalanche hit the ice fast and furious against the Kitscoty Knights after the Atom game winning 6 to 4. A fantastic game for Goalie ‘Goodyear Charlie’ Lesyk especially in the third period when he said good night to the Knights.

Goodyear is another small player with a huge heart. He has a lot of net to cover, especially the top shelf,  but he’s fast as a cat getting from side to side in a hurry. He will need to stand as tall as he possible can with some of the snipers he’s bound to meet in the Peewee league.

His defensive core doing a great job too. ‘Hurricane Kayl’ Warawa for instance stopping a two on one with a nice poke check. Two other D Men , Raif ‘Rug Rat’ Evans Anderson and ‘Cyclone Cole’ Pierce carrying the puck up across the blue line a few times too.

This team has 16 skaters and the coaches did a great job of turning over the three plus lines and keeping the pressure on. The lines also  seemed very well  balanced as the goal scoring was spread out amongst all of them.  Six different goal scorers.

One goal each for Brayden ‘Pinball’ Pinette, Timmy Joe Cardinal, Madden ‘Mad Dog’ Flamand, ‘Top Gunner’ Crawford, Ella ‘Stellar’ Ballas, and ‘Bo Diddley’ Fontaine.  ‘Top Gunner’ and Kaleb ‘Formula One’ Flamand with two assists each.

Evett ‘Snoop Dog’ Smereka, Bo Diddley and Brendon ‘Blue Line’ Haesch with one helper each .

Trystn Sakowsky playing in his very first game showing a lot of heart and desire  forechecking hard.

On Sunday the Peewees traveled to Paradise Valley winning 5 to 3. The last goal was into an empty net by Kaleb ‘Formula One’ Flamand giving him a hat trick when P.V. pulled the goalie for the extra attacker trying to tie the game.

His brother the Mad Dog and Top Gunner with one goal each. One  assist each for Bo Diddley Fontaine and the unsung hero’s on defense Spencer ‘Goldie Locks’ Malachowski and Gavin ‘Giver’ Kadutski who both giver 100 percent all the time.